Joanne Nova



Joanne Nova (real name Joanne Codling) is an Australian right wing blogger who mainly writes about climate change. She is based in Perth, Western Australia, and has a B.Sc. in molecular biology. Her partner is David Evans, a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, who shares similar beliefs on global warming.

Career
For four years, she worked for the Shell Questacon in Canberra, Australia. The Shell Questacon is a joint venture between Shell Oil and the Australian National University. She has also worked for Foxtel, a cable television company part owned by News Corporation. She runs the Australian company Science Speak, the main aim of which is to promote denialism.

Skeptic's Handbook
She is the author of The Skeptic's Handbook, a publication that purports to give climate skeptics "the tools [they] need to cut through the red-herrings, and avoid the traps." The main contention of The Skeptic's Handbook is the claim that CO2 does not drive global warming. The handbook has been thoroughly debunked by John Cook's Skeptical Science website, and also by DeSmogBlog. Since then Jo Nova has written a "Skeptic's Handbook II", which mainly attacks climate science with political arguments, such as "global bullies want your money". Throughout the Skeptic's Handbook II, Nova adopts positions that are not falsifiable, hence unscientific; an example is "There is no consensus, there never was, and it wouldn’t prove anything even if there had been." The Handbook is a grab-bag of catchphrases and polemic.

She has invoked the ire and ridicule of other bloggers for her shaky grasp of science, particularly over the Tropospheric Hot Spot. Both Cook and Lambert show that she is wrong on this question, inter alia.

Related SourceWatch articles

 * Global warming skeptics
 * SourceWatch:Project:Creating Articles on Sponsors and Speakers at The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change

External resources
How Jo Nova doesn't get past climate change http://www.skepticalscience.com/How-Jo-Nova-doesnt-get-past-climate-change.html How Jo Nova doesn't get the CO2 lag http://www.skepticalscience.com/How-Jo-Nova-doesnt-get-the-CO2-lag.html How Jo Nova doesn't get the tropospheric hot spot http://www.skepticalscience.com/How-Jo-Nova-doesnt-get-the-tropospheric-hot-spot.html 

External articles

 * Joanne Nova, "The Great Global Fawning: How Science Journalists Pay Homage to Non-Science and Un-Reason", Presentation to the Heartland Institute's International Conference on Climate Change (2009), March 10, 2009. (PowerPoint)
 * Deltoid, Skeptic's Handbook : Not Novel, Not Right http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2008/12/skeptics_handbook_not_novel_no.php
 * Jo Nova reveals climate science's endgame : http://watchingthedeniers.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/jo-nova-reveals-climate-sciences-endgame-controlling-the-world-bwah-ha-ha/